About Robert E. Howard
Post Oaks & Sand Roughs
Material type
Publication date: 1990
Introduction
Post Oaks and Sand Roughs. Semi-autobiographical novel centering around Howard's friends, acquaintances, and the towns in which he lived.
Notes
Limited edition of 850 copies.
"First Edition" on copyright page.
"Index" relates people and titles of stories used in the text to those in Howard's real life.
"Appendix" contains rejection letters from publishers and other materials referred to in the text.
Edition and production details
- Format
- Hardcover with dust jacket (6.25 x 9.4 inches)
- Publication date
- 1990
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher / imprint
- Donald M. Grant
- Cover art
- Phil Hale
- Illustrations
- Phil Hale
3 linked Howard works
18 contents entries
- "Introduction" by Glenn Lord
- Introduction (Post Oaks & Sand Roughs) • essay by Glenn Lord 5 · introduction
- "Post Oaks & Sand Roughs"
- Post Oaks & Sand Roughs • non-genre • novel by Robert E. Howard 11 · novel
- Letter to WESTERN STORY, ca. late fall 1924, "—And I am not one of those writers … " Brief excerpt only on pages 16-17, the letter is presumably lost.
- Index (Post Oaks & Sand Roughs) • essay by uncredited 162 · essay
- Letter to Herbert Klatt, ca. Fall 1925, "Bohut salaam, bahadur: / Again I write you, … " The letter is paraphrased on page 79.
- Appendix (Post Oaks & Sand Roughs) • essay by uncredited 165 · essay
- Appendices
- The Seven-Up Ballad • poem by Robert E. Howard 175 · poem
- Letter from Farnsworth Wright
- Letter to Farnsworth Wright, January 23, 1926 "I have no carbon copy of Wolfshead … "
- "Dula Due to be Champion"
- Letter from S.A. McWilliams
- Copy of collaboration agreeement for revision of "West of the Rio Grande" by R. Fowler Gafford
- Rejection letter from Albert and Charles Boni, Inc.
- Rejection letter from Dodd, Mead and Co.
- "The Seven-Up Ballad" (poem)
Contributors
- Phil Hale
- Cover artist, Illustrator
Additional related terms
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Bibliographic and editorial layers
Howard Works source layer
- Title
- Post Oaks & Sand Roughs
- Publisher
- Donald M. Grant
- Date
- 1990
- Source file
- postoak.htm
REH World editorial layer
- Title
- Post Oaks & Sand Roughs
- Publisher
- Donald M. Grant
- Date
- 1990